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What is a latrine?

What is a latrine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An open trench or pit used for urination and defecation.
  2. (India, otherwise military) Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse.
  3. (obsolete) A chamber pot.
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In low and medium density areas when a pit latrine is filled to capacity it is often closed off and a new pit is dug adjacent to it.
Deciding that cleaning toilets in the latrine and tables in the mess wasn't for him, Mauldin transferred to the infantry.
You can assign me to clean the latrine or peel potatoes in the army mess, and I will be deriving a science out of it.
It has provided training and workshops for hygiene and sanitation, latrine construction, borehole drilling, pump repair and operation and maintenance of pumps.
Sleeping quarters should be upwind from the cooking, latrine and waste disposal sites.
Next beyond the abris was the latrine from which a puff of wind brought now and then a nauseous stench.

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